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To think tinned soup is fucking disgusting now.

98 replies

00100001 · 19/05/2023 19:46

Have my taste buds changed? But all tinned soup tastes absolutely awful these days...not even Heinz tomato soup cuts it any more 😭

I have tried the fancy ones often recommended here, bit blergh they're not nice

Maybe I'm just getting old ha ha

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TheWorldsGoneMadAndSoHaveI · 19/05/2023 19:55

Have they put sweetner in it?
Everythings being ruined with sweeters...i cant stand the taste and they make me ill!

Atishoos · 19/05/2023 19:56

Are you preggers.

00100001 · 19/05/2023 19:57

Atishoos · 19/05/2023 19:56

Are you preggers.

Nope!

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FabFitFifties · 19/05/2023 19:57

They've reduced the salt. I tend to add pepper.

EVHead · 19/05/2023 19:58

Yes they’re tasteless mush now.

InsertSomethingMotivationalHere · 19/05/2023 19:59

Yes they are all dire and it's absolutely the salt reduction. I knew tinned soup was forever fucked when I recently tried good old heinz tomato and it was just...meh. 😭

Daffodil92 · 19/05/2023 20:00

EVHead · 19/05/2023 19:58

Yes they’re tasteless mush now.

I mean…soup is generally liquid anyway 😂

00100001 · 19/05/2023 20:01

Glad it's not just me!

Fucking do gooders and their salt and sugar levels ruining my tea....

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Sissynova · 19/05/2023 20:01

Can’t beat tinned for tomato though. Fresh tomato soup just tastes like a big acidy bowl of chopped tomatoes. I can’t do it.

But yeah most tinned soup is grim. When they hold the form of the …. boke.

MyCupIsFull · 19/05/2023 20:01

You're right , they are just flavourless thickened coloured water , vile

LaDamaDeElche · 19/05/2023 20:02

I still like Heinz tomato soup

bellac11 · 19/05/2023 20:03

Cullen skink - Baxters

phoenixrosehere · 19/05/2023 20:05

I find the few I have tried in the past to be quite acidic. I love the cubed vegetable soups in the vegetarian area of the freezer section.

00100001 · 19/05/2023 20:05

bellac11 · 19/05/2023 20:03

Cullen skink - Baxters

That was recommended here, paid a lot for it, absolutely nothingy
couldn't finish it..DS19 had it in the end

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00100001 · 19/05/2023 20:06

Sissynova · 19/05/2023 20:01

Can’t beat tinned for tomato though. Fresh tomato soup just tastes like a big acidy bowl of chopped tomatoes. I can’t do it.

But yeah most tinned soup is grim. When they hold the form of the …. boke.

I think you just have to cook the shit out of it, like simmer it for hours,and/or add a lot of sugar.

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TomatoSandwiches · 19/05/2023 20:06

Homemade soup is the only soup you need, I make it at least once a week expect for summer.

Bk1000 · 19/05/2023 20:07

yanbu all tinned soup is horrible, I’m not sure if the soup has changed or if it’s my taste though. I used to love a Heinz tomato or lentil soup but they are bland and horrible now.

knittingaddict · 19/05/2023 20:08

I haven't yet found a tinned soup that tastes of anything other than tinned soup. It has its own special food category. They always seem highly processed, gloopy and artificial tasting now. I think "fresh" soup (the ones in the plastic tubs) has spoilt the appeal forever.

I go on a decent tinned soup hunt every so often and have so far failed miserably.

HungryandIknowit · 19/05/2023 20:12

I hate tinned soup but am generally too lazy to make my own. Try Tideford Organics lentil and spinach dhal soup. It has flavour

knittingaddict · 19/05/2023 20:12

FabFitFifties · 19/05/2023 19:57

They've reduced the salt. I tend to add pepper.

That could be the answer.

As an aside, I've always hated tinned tomato soup and cream of chicken. Used to love oxtail, but you rarely see that these days. Probably just as well.

GoodVibesHere · 19/05/2023 20:15

I like Baxters -

Carrot and butterbean
Spicy lentil & tomato

Some Sainsburys ones are nice too

Jellycatbat20 · 19/05/2023 20:19

Almost everything premade tastes bloody awful now, with a few exceptions. I made the mistake of getting some Bisto ready meals for the nights I can't make it back from work on time to make tea before the other half leaves and they are absolutely rank. They literally taste like cardboard. When I read the reviews like I should have done before buying them everyone was saying how awful the gravy granules are now as well.

We're probably living through one of the most joyless decades in recent memory...! Thanks Jamie and other up their own backsides virtue signallers...on a serious note, the soup makers you can get are really good now, or just slow cooker the heck out of it all and then blend it.

Wilberthepig · 19/05/2023 20:21

As a kid,I lived on beef and scotch broth

A few years ago,purely for nostalgia reasons I bought a tin of each

Utterly foul-one tasted of nothing and the other was an 'off' pepper taste

I'd love a tin of what it used to taste like

SaturdayGiraffe · 19/05/2023 20:22

The only decent tinned soup was Amy’s and it’s not sold here now.
The rest of it is gak.

Okunevo · 19/05/2023 20:25

I just make my own soup, though not tomato soup. Makes loads for next to nothing, I couldn't justify £1.70 for a tin that tastes of nothing.

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